Schedule Types

Types of Schedules

There are four types of schedules within Inclivio that allow you to achieve different goals:

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA)

Ecological Momentary Assessment allow you to send multiple pings per day to your participants based on the parameters you set. Choose this schedule if you plan to send 2+ pings on at least one day in your study. You can set the schedule to be the same every day of the study, different based on the day of the week the ping is sent, or customized based on the specfic study day.

Longitudinal

Longitudinal schedules allow you to implement long-term longitudinal assessments in Inclivio. Longitudinal schedules allow you to go several days without sending pings, whereas this is difficult (and often impossible) in the EMA schedule type. The primary difference between longitudinal schedules and EMA schedules is that you can skip days in longitudinal schedules (e.g., send pings 1 day/month).

Dynamic

Dynamic schedules are event-contingent schedules based on time-since-activation rather than time-of-day. Dynamic schedules are useful when you want to assess certain episodes (e.g., drinking episodes, increased suicidality) that do not occur at a predictable time.

Participant Initiated

Participant Initiated schedules are event-contingent assessments that the participant self-initiates by clicking on a button within the web or mobile app. Participant initiated schedules do not incur costs, and pass on relevant survey parameters to your survey (e.g., participantid, scheduleid) similar to when a participant clicks on a ping sent via an EMA, longitudinal, or dynamic schedule.